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Mizrachi Inspiration 8 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Mizrahi inspiration sheer #8 When you hear the term love.
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  Relationship, connection, what level of depth does that word
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  suggest to you? Says Ralph Cook.
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  When we use the expression ahava love, we need to distinguish it
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  from platonic love, which is a love which has no real
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  attachment. True ahava True love is a
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  relationship of sympathy, affection and friendship.
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  True hava necessitates a great interest in the welfare of the
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  loved 1A genuine interest in concern that the person feels
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  good, that the beloved be healthy in spirit and in body,
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  that he reach ethical and spiritual sanctification.
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  The love of mankind needs to reach a great exalted level to a
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  sublime yearning that there be no ethical poverty that is not
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  fake. It's not lip service to a
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  concept that it's genuine and real.
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  True love seeks to advance people's spiritual and material
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  well-being. So to what extent do you really
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  want the other person to succeed?
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  Do you care for the because society demands we say certain
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  things act in a certain way or do you really want them to every
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  good fortune possible? And that is true for Jew and for
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  non Jew. Now, within the context of love,
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  there does exist a small place for hatred as it's written
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  Valamalshinim Altahitikva. We say it three times a day in
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  the Amida prayer for the informers that there be no hope.
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  May all of your enemies be swiftly cut off, but one must
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  understand that the hatred must be directed only against the
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  evil and not simply against your indiscriminately chosen
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  adversaries. There's a precept of the Torah
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  to love your neighbor, that there's no precept in the Torah
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  to hate anybody, especially hate people who are not about our
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  faith. Hatred is only on the evilness
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  and ugliness in the world, as it said, and all the wickedness
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  ends like smoke. We call how Risha catashantika.
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  We say it Roshani yam kepa. All the wickedness should just
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  end. All of it just fly away.
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  In every place where we find references of hatred, such rough
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  cook, we understand clearly that the intent is only against the
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  phenomenon of evil, against the impurity of evil, and not simply
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  against people. It's wickedness, not the wicked
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  ones. The concept of wrong is what we
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  want to be, to have finished in the world, not people.
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  To to be hurt or die or get or disappear.
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  There are different versions of this wording of the Brock and
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  the Amida prach, different nusrats.
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  May all of the blasphemers be instantly destroyed and all of
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  the wicked be instantly destroyed.
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  What is the difference? Two different texts, different
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  tradition, Ashkenaars the 3rd. So one version is may all
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  wickedness be instantly destroyed.
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  This is to be directed to our present situation in our time,
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  when the national aspirations of the nations are united with
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  forces of evil to the point of inciting wars.
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  The intent of the hatred is only against the evilness which
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  disrupts the unity of all nations.
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  Let's end by coming back to something that's fundamental
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  about our people and our national purpose.
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  The task of the Jewish nation is to lead the world to its optimal
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  development to the perfection of all of creation.
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  Out of this perfection, everything in creation will act
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  to bring honor and glory to Hashem, the spirit of idealism,
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  to bring goodness and perfection to the world by uplifting
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  everybody. And so everyone recognizes
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  Hashem is embodied in the very essence of who our people are.
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  And when does all this happen? Our vital role comes to life
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  when the nation of Israel returns to its land, when it
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  returns to being a sovereign nation alongside all of the
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  other nations. Only then can it perform its
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  intended task of raising all of mankind to the knowledge and
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  service of Hashem, the true goal and the purpose of all
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  creations. We are living in such times
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  where it's possible, but we first need to work on our love
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  of all mankind, and we need to understand the hatred of
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  evilness, not of any particular individual or groups of people.
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  My friends have a wonderful day.